TRADITIONALLY PIONEERS SINCE 1845 NEWS N 26 NOVEMBER 2018 Dear Readers, In this 26 th MEURA Newsletter we are pleased to invite you to discover some of our latest success stories. You will start with our presentation of the FLEXIBOIL technology, MEURA s auto-adaptive wort spreader for wort kettles. Amazing how simple and efficient this equipment is! The new brewhouse supplied to the ASPERA BRAUEREI producing concentrated beer made from roasted malt as the main ingredient will tell you more about our capacity to develop tailor made solutions for our customers. And the testimony of Jens Riese, the General Manager of the company, is worth being read! For many years MEURA is sharing with the distilling world the huge expertise we have developed in the brewing world, mainly in the field of mash filtration. We propose you to discover our activity in this very exciting world. One of our latest projects in Ilesha, Nigeria, will also be developed further in this Newsletter. Finally, we will be very pleased to meet you at our stand at BrauBeviale 2018 to explain more into details our latest developments. And of course you will be welcomed with the traditional tasty selection of some of our very best Belgian beers. I wish you all a pleasant reading and look forward to seeing you soon in Nuremberg. Sincerely yours, Christian DE BRACKELEIRE, Chief Executive Officer CONTENT Aspera Brauerei Riese GmbH p 2 Flexiboil p 4 The Meura2001 experience in the distilling world! p 5 International Breweries PLC p 6 Current News p 8
ASPERA BRAUEREI RIESE GMBH The Aspera Brauerei Riese GmbH is a family run business founded in 1948 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. In the beginning, Aspera only produced Roasted Malt Beers and Extracts (Röstmalzbier). Today, they are a leading producer producer of Roasted Malt Beers / Extracts, Caramel, Brewing Colorants and Brewing Syrups, and all types of liquid sugars and blended syrups. Still a family business, Aspera is currently in its third generation. Aspera Brauerei Riese GmbH supplies high-quality products to both large and small customers worldwide. Aspera Roasted Malt Beer is in fact a concentrated beer made with roasted malt as the main ingredient. For the last twenty years, Aspera Brauerei has set up partnerships with local breweries for the production of the coloured beers. The filtration, stabilization, evaporation and filling took place at its own facilities. 2
With an increasing demand and in order to better control the quality of its product, Aspera Brauerei decided to produce the coloured beers in-house. To achieve this ambition, Aspera Brauerei contacted Meura s R&D division to develop a unique brewhouse concept for the production of a high quality wort, with roasted malt as the main ingredient. Meura has its own R&D centre: Meura Technologies and Services, located in the scientific campus of the University of Louvainla-Neuve and close to its famous brewing school. Meura s R&D centre consists of a state-of-the-art pilot brewery that combines all the Meura technologies, of course including a Meura 2001 and also an evaporation column to produce grain extracts. The real challenge of the project was the use of roasted malt as the essential ingredient, while achieving the required colour extraction efficiency with the intended flavour profile. After a campaign of intensive trials, the teams at Aspera Brauerei and Meura R&D worked out a unique process solution that meets or even exceeds all the set targets. The plant was successfully commissioned in late 2017, and the unique process should bring a competitive advantage to Aspera Brauerei and put them one step ahead in their market! Today, the industrial results confirm the laboratory findings made by the Meura s R&D team, which once again prove Meura s great reliability, not only for end equipment but also from the very first stage of a project! TESTIMONIAL Jens Riese, Executive Director How would you qualify the relation with our Meura s R&D team? From the very first trials onwards, the relation with Meura s R&D team was determined by a trustful, innovative and professional atmosphere. During our first visits we were impressed of how far the Meura team is thinking out of the box! This especially payed off during layout of the plant, since the available space was very limited. How satisfied are you with your Meura brewhouse? After the first teething troubles, which seem to be obvious in such a project, we are very satisfied with our new brew house and the partnership with Meura. Even small concerns after the start-up are still taken seriously and solved in a very fast and unbureaucratic manner. Did the Meura installation meet your requirements in terms of productivity and quality of the final product? The Meura installation meet our ambitious requirements in terms of productivity and quality of the final products. In some respects, it even exceeds our expectations. Meura is very proud to have achieved the targets of the project and once again wishes Aspera all the best for the future! Other comments? We consider Meura to be an innovative and serious-minded company with highly committed staff. 3
MEURA S AUTO-ADAPTIVE WORT SPREADER This trend led Meura to invest in researching response to this specific situation. In fact, current wort kettles often must be able to work with an evaporation range fluctuating from 1 to 10%/h. Let s consider a fixed forced circulation flow throught the internal/external boiler of a wort kettle. If the steam supply towards the boiler is increased, the flow of the mixture wort/vapour after the boiler increases. In order to keep the same wort spreading pattern at different evaporation rates, the wort spreader should allow adjustment of the flow accordingly. A new challenge for Meura: adjusting the wort spreader to keep a constant spreading pattern! The current developments in the brewing industry require brewhouses able to provide a wide range of evaporation rates. The main reasons are: Introduction of new technologies like the Meurastream with very low evaporation rates ( 1%), still combined with «traditional» evaporation for global and/or license brands. Brewhouses have to produce a mixture of full malt brews and high adjuncts brews. Increased product differentiation (lager and craft beers in the same brewhouse) leading to more variation in evaporation rates. The solution is as simple as it is clever! A spring on top of the spreader will open more by increased steam pressure and therefore flow. The solution is thus only mechanical and leads to an auto-adaptive wort spreader, the FLEXIBOIL. The FLEXIBOIL, Meura s new spreader, can work from 1 to 10%/h evaporation rate and from 100 up to 300% flow while keeping the same spraying pattern! Last but not least, the FLEXIBOIL can very easily be added in any existing wort kettles with its small size allowing it to be introduced via the manhole of 500mm diameter! Interested in this new Meura Development? Just contact our sales team at sales@meura.com! 4
The Meura2001 experience in the distilling world! With the 12 th Meura2001 filter for a distillery ordered earlier this year, Meura are now moving into the distilling industry with more and more successes under their belt! From small craft distilleries to the large one at Diageo and Pernod Ricard, all have opted for the Meura2001 technology! Some distilleries apply mash fermentation (i.e. no mash filtration prior to fermentation) and some work like beer breweries with mash filtration. Although a considerable volume of grain spirits is produced by so called mash fermentation, we notice a growing interest in using mash filtration. Similar to the evolution in the brewing industry, the Meura2001 is the mash filtration technology by excellence for grain distillers too. The benefits of the Meura2001 for malt and grain distilleries are extended: the need for high gravity wort (16-18 P) use of other raw materials than malted barley, such as for example unmalted and malted rye and buckwheat, corn, chocolate and roasted malts e x t r a c t s av ing: often expensive raw materials (e.g. peat malt) which required a high yield (low extract losses) The distilling Master of one of Meura s clients uses both mash fermentation and mash filtration, and highlighted some advantages of mash filtration of the Meura2001: 1) Faster fermentation due to better mixing (fewer deposits on the bottom of the fermenters). 2) More predictable fermentations: limited fluctuation in fermentation time. 3) Reduction of the yeast pitching rate: cost savings in liquid yeast. 4) The distillation columns have much less solid waste. The feedback of the distilleries using the Meura2001 is very positive. Today, Meura have equipment installed in distilleries in Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Russia, Scotland South Africa, the U.S.A. In the words of Ian Palmer, Managing Director of Waterford Distillery in Ireland The mash filter allows the distillery to produce high-gravity wort and to use malts that would be difficult to process in a lauter tun. The wort off the filter has low turbidity which when distilled gives a light floral high-ester spirit and is one that can allow the different fermentation flavours to pass through into it. * Meura s main reference is a turnkey brewhouse supplied to IDL (Jameson distillery, Pernod Ricard), which was commissioned in September 2012. Beside different Meura technologies (CLM mill, Aflosjets, Meura2001 filters, ) this Brewhouse was unique as it is designed to be largely extendable in different phases. The current capacity, after the installation of a 3 rd Meura 2001 filter (commissioned in September 2018) has almost double from the initial capacity. With Meura s innovative equipment and out of the box thinking, Meura provided a technological solution to IDL that will meet their demands for increases in production well into the future. Meura are amongst the world leaders in the brewing sector and are very proud to make the distilling industry benefit from their state-of-the-art technology! * Published in the Brewer and Distiller International, August 2016. 5
INTERNATIONAL BREWERIES PLC International Breweries started production in December 1978 with the launch of Trophy Lager. From humble beginnings, their portfolio has grown and now includes Trophy Lager, Trophy Black, Castle Milk Stout, Castle Lager, The brewery is located in Ilesha, Nigeria, 300 km North-East from Lagos. Since 2016 International Breweries proudly entered the ABInBev family and faced an increasing demand that the brewhouse could no longer manage. ABInBev then soon decided to install a completely new brewhouse. Already familiar with the Meura equipment and fully satisfied with Meura s technologies, International 6
Breweries naturally entrusted Meura with the order in November 2016. From pre-mashing to wort cooling, Meura delivered a 450 hl cold wort (at 16 P) brewhouse including: 1 hammer mill CLM4 of 132 Kw for throws of 4 t/h of unmalted sorghum 2 mash tuns of 360 hl 1 cereal cooker of 120 hl 1 Meura2001 equipped with 104 chambers but designed to be extended up to 120 chambers. 1 wort pre-heater of 1600 m 3 /h 1 external boiler of 500 hl The first brew was produced in November 2017, less than 1 year after the contract was signed! The brewhouse is now equipped to produce 450 hl cold wortper brew, 12 brews a day at high gravity (16,5 P for the main brand) and therefore perfectly prepared to face the ever increasing beer demand! With their new Meura installation International Breweries PLC can stay true to their ambition more than ever: Becoming the most sought after beer manufacturing company in Nigeria, offering consumers great tasting quality beverages that deliver value for money. As a proof of satisfaction, ABInBev again entrusted Meura shortly thereafter with a new order in Nigeria: a complete new greenfield brewhouse in Sagamu! Let s discover this new success story in a next issue of our MeuraNews! Meura wish International Breweries PLC all the best for the future! 7
Current news IBD New Zealand 18-23 March Jeroen Vandenbussche, CCO of Meura and Amol Gangele, Area Sales Manager, exhibited at the IBD in New Zealand in March. As the previous editions, this Convention enjoyed great success and lots of visitors showed their interest in our new developments and technologies! Craft Brewers Conference (Nashville), USA 30 April-3 May Organised in Nashville in early May, the CBC is THE place to be for any craft brewers. Meura, represented by Raul Martinez Gonzalez, Raphael Dayet and Manu Gouwy, all Area Sales Managers, took part in this event, together with their US partner Aegir Brewing System. They showed a real Meura2001 Micro that attracted the curiosity of many visitors! Drink Japan (Tokyo) 27-29 June M e u r a took part i n t h e D r i n k Japan fair for the first time. It was also the first time Meura exhibited in Japan! Together with Boccard Shanghai, they attracted a lot of interested visitors! Craft Beer China (Shanghai) 16-18 May M a n u G o u w y, S a l e s Manager Craf t & Specialty Beers for Meura and Guy Depraetere, Manager of Boccard Shanghai and Area Sales Manager for Meura, exhibited for the second time at the Craft Beers China fair organised in Shanghai last May. At this occasion, Manu gave a lecture about Mash filter for pub & craft breweries after which a long Q&A session was organised for the interested listeners. Trends in Brewing (Gent), Belgium 8-12 April Organised once every two years, the 16 th edition of the Trends in Brewing Convention took place in March this year. Meura was present, together with the other members of the BBTT (Belgian Beer Technology Team). Mathieu Haerinck, R&D Engineer, presented a poster with the title Flexiboil : An autoadjustable wort spreader for wort boiling» Brewers of Europe Forum (Brussels), Belgium 7-8 June The first edition of the Brewers of Europe Forum took place in Brussels last June. Frédérique Harmegnies, Meura s R&D Manager, took the opportunity to give a lecture entitled Brewing with various raw materials a technical challenge?. After this presentation Frédérique received a lot of positive reactions which show the constant interest of the brewers in Meura s state-ofthe-art technologies. Chair De Clerck (Louvain-La- Neuve), Belgium 2-5 September Organised in September, the traditional Chair De Clerck brings together scientis and engineers from the Brewing world. At this occasion, Manu Gouwy, Sales Manager Craft & Specialty Beers for Meura participated in a panel discussion about the craft brewing. VLB Congress (Recife), Brasil 24-26 September Danielle Cardoso, Meura Area Sales Manager based in Brazil, took part in the VLB Congress organised in Recife. She met a lot of visitors and presented them Meura s latest developments and technologies. A great success for Meura! China Brew China Beverage, Shanghai 23-26 October Meura was present at the CBB 2018 in Shanghai! Lots of visitors went to our booth to get informed about Meura s state-ofthe-art equipement and showed a great interest in our new technologies! UPCOMING EVENTS: Brau Beviale (Nuremberg), Germany 13-15 November Editorial Department EDITOR-IN-CHIEF : Jeroen VANDENBUSSCHE, Chief Commercial Officer MANAGING EDITOR : Bénédicte EVERAERT, Marketing Communication Manager DESIGN, LAYOUT & PRINTING : Ex nihilo, Belgium - exnihilo.be TRADITIONALLY PIONEERS SINCE 1845 Meura S.A. Rond-Point J.-B. Meura, 1 - B-7600 Péruwelz (Belgium) - P: +32 69 88 69 88 - F: +32 69 88 69 80 - sales@meura.com - www.meura.com